The Path

    Why did so many of those who lived in Jesus's time not follow him and his teachings? Was the perfect truth and the perfect teacher not enough to persuade them? Even with such ideal situations at hand, there ability to choose was still in place. That ability to choose is called agency. Agency is the ability and privilege God gives people to choose and to act for themselves.
    We see in the scriptures that the majority of the people used their agency to not believe the savior while he was on earth. Christ said in Matt. 15:8-9, "This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." With their hearts far from him, their "understanding [was] darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts." This blindness of heart kept the people from seeing Christ for who he truly was, their savior.
    This same blindness in heart we can see today as Christ's message is still being taught among God's people. Some may say they follow him, but they continue to teach doctrines of men and not of God.
Isaiah, an Old Testament prophet, prophesied of these days in Isa. 42:16, "And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."
    I testify that these paths are found in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ has yet again brought a clarification to his teachings and to his one path. Just as in times of old, we are faced with a decision to make: will we use our agency for good by seeking for, finding, and following him and his path? Or do we not look, not believe what we have found, and not be willing to follow God's commandments? As we exercise faith, we will be lead to that path by the spirit. I know each of us have that power to choose to follow our savior and his path. More about the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ